How wide is wide ?... Your Lens

My lenses start at 28mm range, and I am looking for a wider angle lens.

At first glance, the 17-40L f4 seems to be the answer, but I am not sure the 17mm is wide enough. I am not looking for Fisheye, but rather a nice wide angle, for interior photos (when you want to showcase a newly decorated room, for example). My only doubt with this Canon, is that 17mm at 1.6 is about 28mm. And I do remember 28mm in film was not the widest you could get without going Fisheye.

I remember seeing a 10-22 somewhere. I am not sure if that will be too wide, I have not used one in quite a while.

What do you use, and do you like it?... It would also help me if you could post the usual 800x800 image at your favorite wide range (say 17mm at 1.6 crop), to help illustrate the distortion, and visual of the focal range.

mjgravina wrote in post #2153747
My lenses start at 28mm range, and I am looking for a wider angle lens.

At first glance, the 17-40L f4 seems to be the answer, but I am not sure the 17mm is wide enough. I am not looking for Fisheye, but rather a nice wide angle, for interior photos (when you want to showcase a newly decorated room, for example). My only doubt with this Canon, is that 17mm at 1.6 is about 28mm. And I do remember 28mm in film was not the widest you could get without going Fisheye.

I remember seeing a 10-22 somewhere. I am not sure if that will be too wide, I have not used one in quite a while.

What do you use, and do you like it?... It would also help me if you could post the usual 800x800 image at your favorite wide range (say 17mm at 1.6 crop), to help illustrate the distortion, and visual of the focal range.

Both the EF-S 10-22 and the 17-40 are great lenses. For interiors of a room you want an ultra wide like the 10-22, the 17-40 would not be wide enough for that but would be ideal for most landscapes allthough the 10-22 is useful also.

Thanks for the comments. Here are the three choices I have for architectural photography:

- Canon EF-S 10-22mm (Expensive, non L lens) but they say it takes good photos. (To me it looks like the 18-55 kit lens, hence my fear of dropping $600-$800 for a plastiquy looking thing)

- Sigma 12-24mm EX (I am a big fan of Sigma, but I am reading tons of reports of soft pictures with these lenses). Almost $1k.

- Canon 17-40mm L (Not really a wide angle, but from 28mm I have now, I might be enough of a difference, if the IQ is spectacular, and the build quality worthy of the L designation).

Which ones do you own/use/prefer ?

The 10-22 is pretty much L glass, cept its got the EF-S tag on it

MJG, the lens I am curious about is the Tokina 12-24.

17mm is my widest. not very wide after 1.6x crop factor. i really want a 10-22....

Get youself a 5D if you want to shoot wide.... really...

Sirsloop, thanks for the idea, but I have already purchased over a handful of cameras this year, and I am broke for a 5D until spring or summer of 07.

Sounds like the 10-22 is the actual lens I would need on my 20D and 30D.
Price is high, but you folks say it's good build quality?... If it was $400-$550 I would do it without a second thought, but to drop so much on an EF-S lens, realistically in less than a year, if I do upgrade to the 5D or another FF Camera, I will have that lens sitting, or working off of the 30d alone.

I will take a look at the Tokina. If less expensive, it might be the solution I am looking for.

By the way, I only plan on shooting about 20% of the time with this lens.

My widest is the 17-40 f4 L and it's plenty wide for me, however, I'm more of a mid-range to telephoto shooter, so what works for me may not be to your taste.

Mark

I would go with the 10-22, widest lens available and very high end optics

mjgravina wrote in post #2156127
- Sigma 12-24mm EX (I am a big fan of Sigma, but I am reading tons of reports of soft pictures with these lenses). Almost $1k.

It's more like $590 http://www.47stphoto.c​om …ky1=&subcatky2=​&subcatky3=

For architectural work on 35mm film, you would use a 24mm Perspective Control (PC) lens. Canon makes the 24mm TSE lens for its film cameras. On an APS-C format, that equates to a 15mm PC or TSE lens (which does not exist).

I hear you, Wilt. Will the 10-22 come even closer to getting the job done?...

I'm surprised no one has mentionned the Sigma 10-20 EX HSM.. I'm very pleased with mine and since the OP is partial to Sigma glass, I think it definitely belongs in the list.. it's cheaper than the 10-22 to boot!

the canon 10-22mm is metal right, i could have sworn mine was.

by metal, i mean the same kind of build as the 17-40.